TikTok parents are popularizing a more compassionate way to raise kids — and experts agree future generations will thank us for it. It’s called gentle parenting, and thanks to TikTok, it’s becoming a ...

As a specialist in listening, I have to say that I see very little of it going on. Wherever I look, I see people reacting to each other: Wall Street to Main Street (now manifested as Occupy Wall ...

If you have kids or grandkids, you're familiar with the screen time struggle. It was hard enough limiting TV time, but laptops and smartphones — and all the videos, games, and social channels they ...

We've all been in situations before where we get so frustrated or angry about something, we will lash out at someone without thinking. This lashing out — reactive negativity — happens when we can't ...

By contrast, when the nervous system is reactive, we are in a limbic or survival mode, physically and emotionally. According to Siegal, in a reactive state, ‘…we distort what we hear to fit what we ...

There's nothing more distressing and heartbreaking than knowing a child is scared because of how their parents are interacting. One morning, while the ink on our divorce papers was still drying, my co ...

Every family functions with its own internal set of guidelines. Some parenting styles are more strict, and others are more lenient. Of all approaches to raising kids, gentle parenting is often ...

How you discipline your children speaks volumes about the kind of future you are trying to build as a society. When you raise your voices or your hands, you don’t help children discover who they are.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Author and parenting expert Laura Linn ...